choke-full
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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There is a kind of innocent-looking woman who knows no more of the world than a young chicken, and is choke-full of emotions.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
I have," valiantly: "she has too much of the goddess about her for my fancy: choke-full of dignity and airs, you know, and all that sort of rubbish.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
He is choke-full of hope and life, notwithstanding the cold, and kicks his heels against the back-board, and would like to sing, only he doesn't know how his friend the silent guard might take it.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Hughes, Thomas
“Certainly; I think there is no doubt that that inlet is the pirates’ head-quarters, and that they are certain to have storehouses there choke-full of plunder.
From By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson by Rainey, W. (William)
Twenty jars choke-full of gold, all standing one beside the other!” and he handed up to the peasant one of the jars.
From Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
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